WHAT THE FACE TOLD

New Zealand Tablet, 8 November 1906, Page 37

WHAT THE FACE TOLD

- Two young girls in the parlor of a celebrated photographer were waiting, somewhat impatiently their turn for a sitting. They had consulted the mirror.and each other, had straightened every, bow and ornaTnent, had skilfully brushed the abundant hair" into its most becoming waves and tendrils, yet still they were obliged to wait. When the' studio door -was finallyopened and two middle-aged ladies emerged, the eyes *of jthe girls rah swiftly over the face and figure of the one who had evidently been before the,. camera. '■- • i . ' Dear me ! All this lime wasted "on her ! ' whispered one pair of rosy lips: & When- I get to be asold and as homely as that, I'll not bother with having pictures taken, I can tell" you.* o ■. -. „. I • tne artist was even then expressing to a mend his -satisfaction- with" his sitter. 4 I like to- take ,that kind of a picture— a face is full of characr

tor/ he said. - ':That patient steadfastness in the eyes the strong lines about, the mouth, ~will come out finely. Pretty faces are plentiful enough— they mean nothing except that care and time have not yet touched them —but strong, sweet ■ faces have to be slowly chiselled out, year by year, by some workman within.' *So rthe careless, young girl is even, now deciding what -the face of her future shall be, and somewhere, whether she chooses lor not, '- it -will be plainly pictured.